Variety Business Managers Elite Honoree Carrie Malcolm on Being a ‘Money Therapist’ For Celebrity Clients
variety.comTodd Longwell Very few people plan to become a business manager, and it’s safe to say that hardly anyone ever planned to do so less than Carrie Malcolm.
Malcolm stumbled onto her career path when she found an uncashed $30,000 check made out to her then-boyfriend, a cinematographer named Danny, between the cushions of his couch, which led to the revelation that he didn’t have a checking account and hadn’t done his taxes in six years.
So she got his financial affairs in order and hooked him up with an accountant named Martin J. Geller. Impressed with her efforts, Geller told her about a group of models who were always getting their electricity and their phones shut off when they were traveling, and suggested she do for them what she had done for her boyfriend — paying bills and doing their taxes — but on a professional basis.
Malcolm accepted the challenge and quit her job as an assistant at a production company and went to work for Geller. “The models would bring me shopping bags with receipts, and the receipts were in lira and pounds and francs,” recalls Malcolm. “Marty said to me, just think of yourself as a magician making order out of chaos.” What started as a private financial rescue operation for a boyfriend resulted in a decades-long professional career, which she’ll be honored for, along with her philanthropic efforts, on Nov.
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